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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ABRAHAM D. CAMPBELL, OF HAOKENSACK, NEW/JERSEY, ASSIGNOR ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM ORONKRIGHT, OF'SAME PLACE.

TOYOR i PUZZLE.

SPECIFTCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,655, dated May 9,1882.

Application filed March 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, ABRAHAM D. CAMPBELL, ncitizen of the-United States,residingatHackensack, in the county of Bergen and State of blow Jersey,have made an invention of an Improved Toy or Puzzle; and I do herebydeclare that the following, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a full, clear, and exact description and specification oithe same.

lily invention relates to an improved toy or puzzle, the nature of whichwill be hereinafter fully explained.

According to my invention I arrangea frame or gallows provided at itsupper and lower sides with a pair of holes for the reception and passageof a cord or rope, which is so arranged that when in its normal positionthe said cord or rope shall form two vertical lines, each of which islooped, leavinga central pendent loop. The said cord or rope is knot-tedat each end or provided with means for preventing it being drawn outfrom the holes in the lower side of the frame or gallows.

In first arranging the puzzle one end of the cord or rope is passedthrough one of the holes in the lower frame. It is then conducted upward through one of the holes in the upper brought through on theopposite side, and then looped. It is then passed through ihc secondhole in the upper frame and again looped, and again passed through thesecond upper hole, after which it is passed downward through the headand trunk of the image or device and secured to the srcond hole in thelower part of the frame. The parts being thus arranged, the object ofthe puzzle is to transpose the head of the figure from the secondvertical rope or cord to the center, or to the first vertical ropewithout removal of any part of the device, the transportation beingcii'eeted by means of changes in the looping ot' the cord or rope, aswill be hereinafter more fully explained.

The accompanying drawings illustrate, my invention and form part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is ai'ront view of my improved puzzle,sbowing the parts intheir normal posi lions. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 show the various .inFig. 1.

positions the parts of the device will assume while the puzzle is beingsolved.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts wherevertheyoccnr ineach of the views.

A represents the frame or gallows; a a a 11. the holes therein.

B is the body ortrunk of the figure, and G the head thereof.

D is the rope, the various loops whereof I will designate by differentletters of reference in illustrating the solution of my improved puzzle.v

The parts beingfin the position shown by Fig. l, with the trunk B andhead 0 on the second, D of the vertical lines of the cord D, in order tooperate the puzzle, the first thing to do is to extend the loop 61 andthen pass the head 0 through the said loop, when the head will assumethe position shown by Fig. 2. It will then be simply necessary to takehold of the cord D at cl and d and pull upon it until the edge of theloop dis drawn justbclow the edge of the top A of the frame A, keepingthe head within or above loop d. Then continue pulling the parts d and dFig. 3, of the cord until the bottom of the loop passes through the holea in the top A of the frame A, when there will be formed on the face ofthe frame, at the hole of, a double loop, (1 (1 as represented by Fig.4. Then pass the head through the double loops (1 (1 thus formed, afterdoing which pull back through the hole a the double loop (1 d, whichwill bring the original loop cl and the head Uinto position, as shown byFig. 5, on the face of the frame A. Then pass the head through loop 1and tighten up the said loop d, when the parts will assume the positionindicated by Fig. 6. The bead will then be in the same relation to thesecond loop,

11*, in the hole a that it was in relation to loop d in the hole a inFig.1,and if it is desired to transport the head 0 onto the part D ofthe cord D, it will only be necessary to repeat the operationhereinbefore described, commencing as if the brad 0 were in the positionupon the body B on the part D of the cord D, as shown In order to returnthe head into the original position it is simply necessary to reversethe order of operation.

Having thus I claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a puzzle ortoy consisting of a frame or gallows, A, and a suspended body, trunk ofwhich are formed in separate parts and suspended on a looped cord orline arranged and supported -substantially as shown and described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a puzzle or toy consisting of aframe or gallows, A, and a suspended body, B, the head 0 and B, the head0 and described my invention, what I trunkof which areformed in separateparts and suspended on a looped cord or line, so arranged that the headmaybe removed from one section of theline and placed upon anotherwithout removing the head from the line, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this 18th day of March,1882.

ABRAHAM D. CAMPBELL. Witnesses:

W. OoLBoRNE BROOKES, O. E. WADSWORTH.

